- 00:56 25/05/2013
Next month firefighters from New York, Boston and Russia will trade in their flame-resistant gear for shoulder pads and ice skates and team up against each other – and some of the best known names in hockey – for the third annual ‘Battles On Ice,’ a two-part annual competition in New York that organizers say represents both tragedy and triumph.
- 00:46 25/05/2013
From a town called Moscow in the state of Idaho to the shadow of the Kremlin in the better known Moscow, protests are scheduled around the world Saturday against biotechnology giant Monsanto, which the demonstrators say is turning a blind eye to the potentially deadly effects of genetically modified foods produced from seeds it sells globally.
- 00:24 25/05/2013
A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
- 23:58 24/05/2013
United States President Barack Obama committed a military faux pas on Friday, when he broke with tradition and didn’t return the salute of a Marine standing guard at the door of the presidential helicopter Marine One.
- 23:52 24/05/2013
Vasily Klyukin, a Russian businessman living in Monaco, paid 1.2 million euros ($1.5 mln) to board a Virgin Galactic spaceship in a seat next to Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, Sky News television reported on Friday.
- 22:42 24/05/2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed on Friday to continue supporting the domestic film industry, but called on Russian filmmakers to produce movies that promote patriotic and moral values.
- 22:01 24/05/2013
The Russian Defense Ministry has signed a contract with the Beriev Aircraft Company for the purchase of six Beriev Be-200 amphibious planes, Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said on Friday.
- 21:30 24/05/2013
Russia’s legendary cruiser Avrora, a symbol of the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, will most likely be moved for repair work in September this year, a Navy spokesman said on Friday.
- 21:07 24/05/2013
Russia regards reports that North Korea is willing to return to six-party talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula as a “positive development,” a senior Russian diplomat said Friday.
- 20:34 24/05/2013
Russia will provide 1.7 billion euros to finance the construction of Serbia’s stretch of the South Stream gas pipeline that will carry Russian natural gas through the Black Sea to Bulgaria and then on to Greece, Italy and Austria, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
- 20:03 24/05/2013
Production of vodka and other spirits in Russia dropped 23.3 percent in the first four months of 2013 year on year to 5.7 million decaliters, the Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat) said in a report on Friday.
- 19:56 24/05/2013
Construction of Russia’s two new antimissile radars – one in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad and the other in Siberia’s Irkutsk region – should be complete by the end of next year, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday.
- 18:55 24/05/2013
A man sits playing chess. Hunched over in concentration, he reaches to move one of his pieces. He could be any lover of the game – only his brain is exposed, as are all of his muscles.
- 18:23 24/05/2013
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov entered into a bizarre public row with a Russian socialite on Friday over whose cat was the “most beautiful.”
- 18:14 24/05/2013
Members of foreign delegations attending an international conference on European security on Friday visited a military base near Moscow hosting a motorized infantry division.
- 17:57 24/05/2013
The British Defense Ministry said Typhoon fighter jets were scrambled on Friday to investigate an incident in British airspace.
- 17:31 24/05/2013
Defense Ministry contracts signed under former Minister Anatoly Serdyukov are to be thoroughly examined and if necessary, audited, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.
- 17:27 24/05/2013
Syrian mass protests started in Daraa on the border with Jordan on
March 18. They were prompted by the arrest of a group of school students
who wrote anti-government mottos on walls. The unrest later spread to
other Syrian regions.
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- 17:07 24/05/2013
The Japanese government denied rumors on Friday that the prime minister's official residence is haunted, the Kyodo news portal reported.
